When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.
Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.
I feel honesty always works.
Yellow usually means it's not that serious.
(You know) you're improving from fight to fight (when you can) showcase your talents against greater opponents every time.
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years. It is peddled by mythmakers- historians, war correspondents, filmmakers, novelists, and the state- all of whom endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism, power, chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and fantastic universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty.
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.
If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip. ' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.